Global Sustainable Finance 2025 Style Update

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The Global Sustainable Finance Awards exist to honour and celebrate the world’s preeminent and ground-breaking financial institutions and their distinguished leadership contribution to driving sustainable finance and responsible investment practices across products, services, solutions, projects and initiatives.

The Digital Banker Awards celebrate the world’s most cutting-edge financial service providers that are pioneering unrivalled standards and capabilities and transforming the industry by setting new milestones in positively enhancing triple bottom line profitability, thereby benefiting all key stakeholders.

These awards are accolades of excellence and distinction, attributed to outstanding players; and provide unbiased and objective benchmarks for the global industry in advancing decarbonisation and managing net-zero transition risks.

The Global Sustainable Finance Awards 2026 is the world’s only assessment programme dedicated to recognising excellence in incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations across the financial services ecosystem.

What's New This Year?

Sustainable finance takes on greater prominence in the 2026 awards, reflecting its growing role in capital allocation, risk management and long-term value creation across the financial system. In response, the programme introduces two new categories that address both the structuring of sustainability-linked instruments and the management of climate-related risk.

Best Sustainability Linked-Instrument – Overall recognises institutions that have demonstrated excellence in the structuring, execution and performance of sustainability-linked instruments across loans, bonds or hybrid formats, with clear and credible links between financial outcomes and sustainability targets. Outstanding Climate Risk & Resilience Management Initiative acknowledges institutions that have strengthened their ability to identify, measure and manage climate-related risks, including physical and transition risk, through robust frameworks, data, governance and scenario analysis

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2025 Awards Highlights

Why Nominate?

International finance is increasingly oriented towards addressing global challenges such as climate risk, social inclusion, and sustainable economic development. These priorities are reinforced by global frameworks such as the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Climate Bonds Initiative.

According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCAD), the sustainable finance market have reached approximately $7 trillion in 2023, reflecting a 20% year-on-year growth, driven by sustainable capital market products and sustained investor demand. Regulatory developments and public-sector initiatives continue to reinforce this momentum, providing clearer standards and incentives for ESG-aligned activity.

Now, more than ever, it is imperative that FIs generate positive sustainability impacts through innovative business models and services aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA).

Who Can Apply?

The Global Sustainable Finance Awards program is open to the financial services landscape across numerous lines of business. We invite nominations from retail banks, SME banks, wholesale banks, wealth managers, private banks, investment banks, asset management companies, investment funds, insurance organisations, FinTech companies, technology solution providers and their extended corporate/institutional clients.

If you identify your organisation and/or professionals as industry leaders that are pushing boundaries and championing best in class innovation across sustainable finance – we welcome you to send in your nominations.